Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: May 1, 2013

Foreign Exchange Rates -- G.5 Monthly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)

The table below shows the average rates of exchange in APRIL 2013 together
with comparable figures for other months. Averages are based on daily noon buying
rates for cable transfers in New York City certified for customs purposes by
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

COUNTRY

CURRENCY

April 2013

March 2013

February 2013

April 2012

*AUSTRALIA

DOLLAR

1.0380

1.0345

1.0310

1.0350

BRAZIL

REAL

2.0011

1.9842

1.9729

1.8522

CANADA

DOLLAR

1.0187

1.0244

1.0098

0.9928

CHINA, P.R.

YUAN

6.1861

6.2154

6.2323

6.3043

DENMARK

KRONE

5.7235

5.7552

5.5894

5.6529

*EMU MEMBERS

EURO

1.3025

1.2953

1.3347

1.3160

HONG KONG

DOLLAR

7.7631

7.7592

7.7552

7.7621

INDIA

RUPEE

54.3236

54.4229

53.8079

51.6900

JAPAN

YEN

97.7582

94.7700

93.0016

81.2524

MALAYSIA

RINGGIT

3.0480

3.1074

3.0964

3.0586

MEXICO

PESO

12.2061

12.5000

12.7249

13.0559

*NEW ZEALAND

DOLLAR

0.8479

0.8284

0.8385

0.8180

NORWAY

KRONE

5.7935

5.7806

5.5648

5.7521

SINGAPORE

DOLLAR

1.2380

1.2466

1.2382

1.2510

SOUTH AFRICA

RAND

9.1007

9.1927

8.8766

7.8329

SOUTH KOREA

WON

1120.8977

1102.8710

1087.3084

1135.0238

SRI LANKA

RUPEE

125.9673

126.7005

126.7342

128.4248

SWEDEN

KRONA

6.4867

6.4455

6.3756

6.7359

SWITZERLAND

FRANC

0.9366

0.9466

0.9212

0.9133

TAIWAN

DOLLAR

29.8268

29.7448

29.6321

29.4433

THAILAND

BAHT

29.0573

29.4948

29.8105

30.8614

*UNITED KINGDOM

POUND

1.5311

1.5080

1.5474

1.6000

VENEZUELA

BOLIVAR

6.2842

6.2842

5.6554

4.2893

Memo:

UNITED STATES

DOLLAR

1) BROAD

JAN97=100

100.3465

100.6782

99.7849

99.0122

2) MAJOR CURRENCY

MAR73=100

76.1837

76.1993

74.5691

72.7917

3) OITP

JAN97=100

125.8563

126.5803

126.7199

127.3667

This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/G5.
For more information on exchange rate indexes for the U.S. dollar, see "Indexes of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar," Federal Reserve Bulletin, 91:1 (Winter 2005), pp. 1-8, (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2005/winter05_index.pdf). Weights for the broad index can be found at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/H10/Weights; weights for the major currencies index and the other important trading partners (OITP) index are derived from the broad index weights. The most recent annual revision to the trade weights and the dollar indexes took effect with the May 2009 release of this report. The source for exchange rates not listed in the table above but used in the calculation of the broad and OITP indexes is Bloomberg.
* U.S. dollars per currency unit.
1) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against the currencies of a broad group of major U.S. trading partners.
2) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that circulate widely outside the country of issue.
3) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that do not circulate widely outside the country of issue.
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The euro is reported in place of the individual eure-area currencies. These currency rates can be derived from the dollar/euro rate by using the fixed conversion rates (in currencies per euro) given below: